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Comparing the amounts each foundation donates would be dumb. Drumpf does need to work on his foundation... what an embarrassment. Maybe he could get some tips from Hillary on how to get some "pay to play" action going to his charity.

Also, I guess it depends on which current investigation you are talking about.

When are y'all going to realize that both the republican and democratic parties are full of snakes. No matter what you dig up on Drumpf you can always find a dim that has done something similar that is far worse. It's only the libertarian types you can trust (think Rand Paul).

It has nothing to do with who the snakes are. There are millions of snakes out there. The issue is that one of them is in power right now. I'm pretty certain neither Bill, Hillary, nor Chelsea will ever be President going forward.

The only useful reason in bringing up past Clinton sins seems to be to justify the current President's actions. Otherwise, who cares what happened in the past?

It has nothing to do with who the snakes are. There are millions of snakes out there. The issue is that one of them is in power right now. I'm pretty certain neither Bill, Hillary, nor Chelsea will ever be President going forward.

The only useful reason in bringing up past Clinton sins seems to be to justify the current President's actions. Otherwise, who cares what happened in the past?

We either get all of the snakes (which we haven't) or we get none of the snakes!

Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.

"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American

In his first comments since the FBI raid on his home and office, Michael Cohen said the FBI agents "were extremely professional, courteous and respectful."
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"I am unhappy to have my personal residence and office raided. But I will tell you that members of the FBI that conducted the search and seizure were all extremely professional, courteous and respectful. And I thanked them at the conclusion," Cohen said in a phone conversation on Tuesday with CNN.
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"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU."Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

The US is going to further sanction Russia for their part in supporting Syria and Assad. Oh wait, just kidding.

Trump just blocked his own administration’s Russia sanctions

It appears that President Trump just blocked his own administration’s plan to sanction Russia.

Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, announced Sunday that the Trump administration was going to hit Russia with new sanctions on Monday over its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons program in the wake of the April 7 chemical attack in Douma, Syria, that killed dozens of people. The sanctions were explicitly focused on Russian companies that deal in equipment linked to Assad’s chemical weapons program.

But just a day later, the White House backtracked, with press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying that the administration was merely “considering additional sanctions on Russia” and that “a decision will be made in the near future.”

So why the awkward reversal? Apparently President Trump wasn’t on board with sanctioning Russia.

According to the Washington Post, after Haley announced the sanctions on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday morning, Trump told national security advisers he was “upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them.”

It unclear whether Haley just mistakenly announced the sanctions prematurely before the president had officially signed off on them, or if something else entirely went wrong.

But two things are obvious: The administration is once again botching the rollout of a fairly straightforward policy, and Trump is personally taking steps to ensure that he doesn’t anger Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A Russian foreign ministry official said on Monday that the Trump administration contacted the Russian embassy on Sunday and told them that the sanctions that Haley had mentioned were not actually coming.

"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU."Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

Trump Fundraiser Offered Russian Gas Company Plan To Get Sanctions Lifted For $26 Million

SHORTLY AFTER PRESIDENT Donald Trump was inaugurated last year, top Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy offered Russian gas giant Novatek a $26 million lobbying plan aimed at removing the company from a U.S. sanctions list, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.

Broidy is a Trump associate who was deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee until he resigned last week amid reports that he had agreed to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model with whom he had an affair. But in February 2017, when he laid out his lobbying proposal for Novatek, he was acting as a well-connected businessman and longtime Republican donor in a bid to help the Russian company avoid sanctions imposed by the Obama administration. The 2014 sanctions were aimed at punishing Russia for annexing Crimea and supporting pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine.

In February 2017, Broidy sent a draft of the plan by email to attorney Andrei Baev, then a Moscow- and London-based lawyer who represented major Russian energy companies for the firm Chadbourne & Parke LLP. Baev had already been communicating with Novatek about finding a way to lift U.S. sanctions.

The Comrade Trump investigation started out of thin air... with possible string pulling from the Hillary campaign (i.e., no intelligence).

No official intel used to start FBI probe into Trump campaign-Russia collusion: Rep. Nunes

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said Sunday his review of FBI and Justice Department “electronic communication” documents shows no intelligence was used to begin the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

“We now know that there was no official intelligence that was used to start this investigation. We know that Sidney Blumenthal and others were pushing information into the State Department. So we’re trying to piece all that together and that’s why we continue to look at the State Department,” Nunes told Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Nunes, R-Calif., cited the Five Eyes agreement as a way of knowing no intel was used. The U.S., along with Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, make up the “Five Eyes,” or countries that share intelligence in a more-trusted fashion than other arrangements, like NATO, particularly due to years of trust and a common language.

“We are not supposed to spy on each other’s citizens, and it’s worked well,” he said. “And it continues to work well. And we know it’s working well because there was no intelligence that passed through the Five Eyes channels to our government. And that’s why we had to see that original communication.”

The California Republican said he is now investigating the State Department due to signs of “major irregularities,” in an effort to figure out how information about former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos – who reportedly met with a foreign policy expert and Cambridge professor with connections to the CIA and Britain’s MI6 in London in 2016 – was obtained by the FBI.

“We know a little bit about that because of what some of the State Department officials themselves have said about that,” Nunes said, adding that “We have to make sure that our agencies talk and they work out problems. We have to make sure that they don’t spy on either American citizens or that we’re not spying on British citizens.”

Still, Nunes doesn’t know whether the former secretary of state and then-Democratic challenger to Trump in the election, Hillary Clinton, was pulling the strings of the investigation launched against her political opponent. However, he said it is known that two long-time Clinton associates – including Sidney Blumenthal – were “actively” giving information to the State Department, which “was somehow making its way to the FBI.”
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"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU."Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU."Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

So you disbelieve all politicians from the two corrupt parties, but you trust Nunes? Why do you all of a sudden need a motive for a politician to lie? That's some inconsistent bullshit Ted. You sound a lot more like a meme-parroting MAGA cultist than a principled 3rd partier.

Nunes has always been a hardcore Trump guy. He was on the Trump transition team. He has been close to Mikey Flynn for several years.

To Nunes point about official intelligence. I'm not sure what he is talking about. Dutch, Estonian, Polish, Belgian, and German intelligence agencies, among others tipped us off to the Russians to varying degrees. Nunes memos have been bullshit, and will continue to be, but as you are the intended audience I'm sure you will enjoy them

I wonder what history will have to say about all of this in years to come. Will they laugh at us for voting Trump into office? Or will they laugh at the ubiquitous hysteria in the aftermath?

Yes. Both are ridiculous.

"Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

So you disbelieve all politicians from the two corrupt parties, but you trust Nunes? Why do you all of a sudden need a motive for a politician to lie? That's some inconsistent bullshit Ted. You sound a lot more like a meme-parroting MAGA cultist than a principled 3rd partier.

Nunes has always been a hardcore Trump guy. He was on the Trump transition team. He has been close to Mikey Flynn for several years.

To Nunes point about official intelligence. I'm not sure what he is talking about. Dutch, Estonian, Polish, Belgian, and German intelligence agencies, among others tipped us off to the Russians to varying degrees. Nunes memos have been bullshit, and will continue to be, but as you are the intended audience I'm sure you will enjoy them

So Nunes, who has the net worth of nothing, is willing to throw himself under the bus for Drumpf just for the hell of it? I am just trying to understand this guy. My guess is that the russians are giving him large duffle bags of money and he has it all buried in his backyard because he isn't a flashy guy.

As for the russia investigation why hasn't Drumpf been impeached already? I am getting tired of the same old b*tch'n from the dims and no action. They need to put up or shut up.

Speaking of no action WTF is the dims doing about DACA? The dims should at least make a proposal rather than just all the constant b*tch'n. If they put up a proposals/bills and the GOP'ers keep shooting it down then at least they would have justification for all their damn b*tch'n.

"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU."Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

Yeah, you're right... the dims b*tch too much. That wouldn't be near enough justification for their damn b*tch'n.

"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU."Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU."Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU."Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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